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Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Ellipsis Mark: Lesson 1
A slideshow introduces an ellipsis and explaining its uses. Followed by a three-question quiz to check for understanding.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer: The Ellipsis
This site from Grammar Slammer at English Plus contains information regarding the correct use of the ellipsis. Several examples of the ellipsis in context are provided.
Grammar Tips
Are Those Dots Just for Decoration? Ellipsis Usage
This resource offers a quick explanation of how to use the ellipsis correctly.
Other
Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide
This site contains practical and useful information about the following: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses and brackets, ellipsis points, quotation marks, and apostrophes. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Omitting Words From Quotations
Notes demonstrating how to correctly write and punctuate a quote when part of the quote has been removed and replaced with an ellipsis. Notes can be read and/or listened to and examples are provided.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Ellipses
This resource contains information regarding the correct use of the ellipsis and examples.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: An Educational Companion to Eats, Shoots & Leaves [Pdf]
Eats, Shoots & Leaves illustrates the necessity of correct punctuation in order to convey intended meaning. Punctuation rules are stated here in a concise manner with accompanying exercises/keys.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Ellipses
This resource contains information regarding how and when to use ellipses, along with examples for each of the uses mentioned.
Other
Spelling police.com: Literary Devices
A simple list of literary terms. Click on each for a definition and examples.
Able Media
Figures of Speech Syntax Exercise
Wonderful exercise uses lines from Book II of Vergil's "Aeneid," to test mastery of rhetorical devices that pertain to syntax. Encourages practice of many skills.
Other
Ideabook.com: The Language of Type
Ideabook.com supplies keyboard instructions (PC & MAC) to create various symbols for mathematics, commerce, finance, weights & measures, punctuation, & reference.
Other
Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
Other
Hoocher: Figures of Speech
A list of figures of speech and their definitions with examples from literature.
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